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The Next Chapter

Predictions: A Spider web services security alienation volition wreck the supply chain. And stolen fingerprints or eye scans will thwart biometric systems.

Executive Editor , Computerworld |

Bye-Bye Incompetents

The fakers, charlatans and incompetents will be purged from the IT security industry. In 3 years, 40% of the current gaggle of declared security professionals volition get out the industry—some to other professions, many to prison house for egregious misrepresentation of their skills. By that time, the Department of Homeland Security will have mandated that all It security professionals must laissez passer a skills certification test run by the U.S. military academies.

--Thornton May, management consultant and futurist, Biddeford, Maine

XML Catastrophe

In the next ii years, at that place volition be a major XML Web services security alienation. The consequences will be much more astringent than the defaced Web sites and stolen credit cards that caused mostly embarrassment in the early days of east-commerce. Instead, automated production lines will grind to a halt, visitor banking company accounts will exist emptied, 100-company-long supply chains will break, and the most proprietary corporate data may be disclosed.

-- Eugene Kuznetsov, chairman and chief engineering science officer, DataPower Technology Inc., Cambridge, Mass.

Attacks Get Speedier

As attacks grow more professional person in nature, we'll see an even greater increase in the speed of threats. For instance, "flash worms" would operate under the premise that a determined hacker could accept obtained a list of all (or almost all) of the servers open to the Cyberspace in advance of the release of the worm. Such an assault could infect all vulnerable servers on the Internet in less than 30 seconds. Protecting against these threats will require new, proactive technologies, including beliefs blocking, anomaly detection and new forms of heuristics.

-- Rob Clyde, CTO, Symantec Corp., Cupertino, Calif.

Offshore Terrorists

Next year, a "sleeper cell" terrorist group will infiltrate the offshore programming industry and be identified as the cause of a widespread worm that will have been injected in the code of a widely used software product.

-- Tari Schreider, director of the security practice, Extreme Logic Inc., Atlanta

New Organizational Nautical chart

Public and private companies, in large numbers, volition merge physical and data security. They'll unify these ii contained groups on the organizational nautical chart and convert physical access-command systems from stand-lone systems to network-enabled systems that convert physical access activity into network data. This information about physical admission volition be correlated with IT activity reports to provide early detection and alert of security breaches.

-- Joel Rakow, partner, Tatum Partners, Los Angeles

Surgical Strikes

Three or four years ago, hackers were taking a haphazard, shotgun approach to Internet attacks, but now they're using their tools to penetrate very specific and lucrative targets, especially enterprise networks containing valuable intellectual property. These highly targeted attacks are on the ascent, each i more than intelligent and harmful than the final. Past 2005, targeted attacks will account for more than 75% of corporate financial losses from It security breaches.

In the next two years, companies volition need to build much stronger and more intelligent defenses around every network endpoint touching sensitive data, instead of depending on full general perimeter security.

-- Gregor Freund, CEO, Zone Labs Inc., San Francisco

Horses and Loggers Threat

By the end of 2003, Trojan horses and keystroke loggers will overtake viruses as the greatest threat to PC users. We'll meet countless malicious attacks each month—and most will initially become undetected, causing companies to lose millions of dollars. This problem will exist made worse by the proliferation of wireless laptops and other mobile devices, which provide hackers with a back door for infiltrating enterprise networks.

-- Pete Selda, CEO, WholeSecurity Inc., Austin

Stolen Fingerprints

Biometrics is perceived as the ultimate in security, but what does somebody do in one case their bioprint is stolen? Within three years, hackers will take all sorts of scanned fingerprints, retinal patterns, etc., and these will be used to featherbed biometric network security. When your credit card is stolen, you lot telephone Visa and have a new menu issued. When your bioprint is stolen, exercise you call God and ask for a new set of fingerprints or eyes?

-- Malcolm MacTaggart, president and CEO, CryptoCard Corp., Kanata, Ontario

Outdated Signatures

Behavioral-bibelot-based applied science will replace traditional signature-based methods to prevent damage from viruses, worms and Trojan horses over the next three to five years.

-- Jeff Platon, senior director of security marketing, Cisco Systems Inc.

Firing the Clueless

P.T. Barnum knew that a sucker was born every infinitesimal. Since most cyber take a chance is directly owing to insider activity, including the social engineering science of digital dullards, a renewed focus on groundwork checks is necessary. The chief security officer of the futurity, working with the 60 minutes chief, is going to discover and fire digital "suckers" before their dimness puts the enterprise at risk.

-- Thornton May

Little Blue

The SmartPrint TruBlue, from Labcal Technologies Inc. in Quebec City, combines fingerprint biometric applied science with a smart-card authentication reader. The goal of this hybrid device is to eliminate those pesky, complicated passwords. It plugs into a reckoner's Universal Serial Passenger vehicle port.

— Mitch Betts